"The actor who portrayed the gay lover of a closeted mobster on "The Sopranos" has died of a self-flicted gunshot wound New York, police said. Police
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- GAY ‘SOPRANOS’ MOBSTER FDS A B OF FAME
- JOE GANNASLI DISCS HIS LIFE DURG AND SCE PLAYG GAY MOBSTER VO SPATAFORE ON ‘THE SOPRANOS’
- THE GAY MOBSTER ‘SOPRANOS’ WRERS USED AS THE BASIS FOR VO SPATAFORE
- MOBSTER WHO SPIRED GAY SOPRANOS’ STAR IS JAILED
- GAY 'SOPRANOS' MOBSTER GLAD FOR EXPOSURE
- THAT GAY MOBSTER TOTALLY DID NOT MEAN TO COME OUT
- SOPRANOS‘ GAY CHARACTER ‘JOHNNY CAK’ KILLS HIMSELF
- MAFIA BOSS BBED OUT 'FOR BEG GAY'
- MAFIA BOSS BBED OUT 'FOR BEG GAY'
GAY ‘SOPRANOS’ MOBSTER FDS A B OF FAME
The man who played Vo Spatafore on beg the butt of fat jok, gay jok, and the star of a famo gif. * gay sopranos mobster finds big game *
”Drsed appropriate leather bar attire, Vo Spatafore — the heretofore closeted gay mobster — was sighted by a uple wiseguys who me by the sweaty S&M jot to llect their protectn money. )Now that the gay story le is heatg up, the 47-year-old Brooklyn-born actor is immensely pleased, part bee was his ia to make Vo homosexual. “I wanted to make him sort of self-nial, self-loathg, a real gay hater.
”Gannasli’s suggtn was spired by the book “Murr Mache, ” about the Gambo fay, which had an openly gay member also named Vo.
JOE GANNASLI DISCS HIS LIFE DURG AND SCE PLAYG GAY MOBSTER VO SPATAFORE ON ‘THE SOPRANOS’
The real-life mobster who orred a h on a gay mob boss, and whose story spired an entire season of spense surroundg gay mobster Vo Spatafore (Joe Gannasli) TV seri' The Sopranos, has been sentenced to life prison.Stefano Vabile, 71, was sentenced to life prison for orrg the 1992 slayg of actg DeCavalnte crime boss John (Johnny Boy) D'Amato, who was killed when he was outed by his fellow mobsters, acrdg to New York's Daily News. * gay sopranos mobster finds big game *
But even amid all the recent gay buzz, Gannasli knows the reactn to Vo won’t be all posive.
The Sopranos was a show wh some wild twists, but arguably s most shockg revelatn was that Vo Spatafore, the portly po of the Aprile crew and one of Tony’s bt earners, was actually a closeted homosexual. He’d pched to one of the wrers after learng about a real-life gay mobster om a book he was readg, lled Murr Mache.
THE GAY MOBSTER ‘SOPRANOS’ WRERS USED AS THE BASIS FOR VO SPATAFORE
Everybody's havg fun wh Robert Mormando, the gay mafia hman the world learned about today. It's like The Sopranos! Except he only meant to e out ont of the judge, not a bunch of newspaper reporters. * gay sopranos mobster finds big game *
Sce fdg fame on The Sopranos, Gannasli has published a novel, gotten married (“I got married late, and I said ‘I gotta get married quick here bee people are really gog to thk that I’m gay, ’ so was a sh job. You talked about them rporatg real-life thgs wh the actors to the show, but the whole Vo arc where he’s gay, that was your ia, right? And one of the characters was gay and I thought that was… I was like, “Wow, was a gay mobster.
They’re so homophobic that even the portrayal of a gay man on TV they’re like, “I don’t like . I worked a gay rtrant. If you have a problem wh gays you shouldn’t be the rtrant bs.
MOBSTER WHO SPIRED GAY SOPRANOS’ STAR IS JAILED
* gay sopranos mobster finds big game *
In the episo where they disver that Vo’s gay at the leather bar, do you remember what you were thkg the first time that they me and showed you the wardrobe that you were gog to have for that? Gannasli had read a book about a gay mobster who was an associate of New York’s Gambo crime fay.
GAY 'SOPRANOS' MOBSTER GLAD FOR EXPOSURE
The boss of the mafia fay on which the Sopranos seri is believed to be based was executed by one of his own soldiers bee he was gay and they feared that if news got out the fay would be ridiculed by the rt of the unrworld, a Manhattan urt has been told. * gay sopranos mobster finds big game *
Gambo associate Vo Arena had survived as a gay mobster the ’80s. There’s a mobster who’s gay and you don’t really see that. Though Green sound terted, Gannasli didn’t hear anythg more about until the murr of a gay Jersey mobster splashed across headl.
A gay Jersey mobster’s murr ma ‘Sopranos’ wrers rensir. Durg the trial of Jersey mobsters, a DeCavalnte soldier scribed murrg DeCavalnte boss Johnny Boy D’Amato for beg gay. “Nobody’s gonna rpect if we have a gay homosexual boss, ” the killer said urt.
THAT GAY MOBSTER TOTALLY DID NOT MEAN TO COME OUT
heretofore closeted gay mobster--was sighted by.
SOPRANOS‘ GAY CHARACTER ‘JOHNNY CAK’ KILLS HIMSELF
) Now that the gay.
to make Vo gay. self-loathg, a real gay hater.
about the Gambo fay, which had an openly gay member. amid all the recent gay buzz, Gannasli knows the reactn.
MAFIA BOSS BBED OUT 'FOR BEG GAY'
In 2004, the Season 5 episo "Unintified Black Mal", is disclosed to viewers Vo is fact homosexual after he is seen performg fellat on a secury guard early one morng at the Esplana nstctn se by Meadow's boyiend, Fn De Trol. Vo at the gay bar. Later, that eveng while makg a llectn at a gay bar, two Lupertazzi Fay associat, one named Sal Iaccuzzo, saw Vo dancg provotively wh a gay man.
The Iaccuzzo character was based on real-life Gambo Crime Fay po Matthew Lanniello, who was known to extort and own several nightclubs New York Cy that tered to homosexual clientele. Vo claimed that his homosexual behavr had been ed by meditn.
Lupertazzi crime fay boss Phil Leotardo, a vilent homophobe, mand Vo's ath, so Tony quietly arranged for Carlo Gervasi to make a h on Vo. It was later revealed that Vo was found wh a pool cue stick his rectum, a msage that he was killed bee of his homosexualy. Phil Leotardo later told Vo's wife, Marie, that her hband was probably killed by two homosexual transients Vo had picked up at a bar.
MAFIA BOSS BBED OUT 'FOR BEG GAY'
The real-life mobster who orred a h on a gay mob boss, and whose story spired an entire season of spense surroundg gay mobster Vo Spatafore (Joe Gannasli) TV seri’ The Sopranos, has been sentenced to life prison.
It was after Sopranos wrers read about Vabile’s 2003 trial feral urt that Gannasli urged them to make his Vo Spatafore character gay.
On this season’s Sopranos, Spatafore left his wife and kids when two mobsters spotted him a gay bar.